David P . Weber, JD
Professor
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School of Law
Faculty - Law
The Werner Institute
LAWC - Ahmanson Law Center - 246
David P . Weber, JD
Professor
Prof. Weber’s more recent scholarship focuses on the NCAA and the evolution of its policy on name, image, and likeness (NIL). Prof. Weber has served as an expert witness on international college athlete matters, and he has advised businesses as well as collegiate and Olympic athletes on NIL transactions. Prof. Weber has also advised and assisted with federal NIL-related legislation on Capitol Hill. Prof. Weber is the faculty moderator for the Sports Law Concentration.
In addition to his scholarship on NIL, Prof. Weber’s other scholarship has covered many areas including contracts, immigration, sports law, secured transactions, and mortgages and real estate. His work has appeared in many notable journals, and his work has been cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Supreme Court, American Law Reports (ALR), and American Jurisprudence (Am.Jur.) among others. He has been cited in national publications such as ESPN, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, and the Associated Press, as well as many local news outlets.
Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Weber worked as an associate at the multinational firm of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., with its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he did corporate work including work in foreign and domestic mergers and acquisitions, general corporate counseling, international real estate development, and entity formation with a special focus on undocumented entrepreneurs. Prof. Weber has lived and worked abroad in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.
Prof. Weber has served on several non-profit boards of directors focusing on providing support and resources to the Latino community. He engages in pro bono immigration work as well as informal advising with other community organizations.
Department
Law
Position
Professor
General
- Weber David P., Federal government issues guidance on handling of bank-issued gift cards 2006
Articles
- Creighton Lawyer
Weber David P., Law of the Game of Thrones 2018 - Weber David P., Buying Mexican ejido property requires legal savvy 2007
- Franchising World
Weber David P., Gift cards: What franchisors should know
38:7 2006
Publications
- Boston University Law Review
Weber David, Will the professionalization of student-athletes kill the NCAA?
103:6 2023 - North Carolina Law Review
Haneman Victoria, The abandonment of international college athletes by NIL policy
101:6 2023 - Tulane Law Review
Weber David P., Athletes in transit
96:5 2022 - 3D Printing in Medicine
Cote John, COVID-19 and a novel initiative to improve safety by 3D printing personal protective equipment parts from computed tomography
6 2020 - South Carolina Law Review
Weber David P., Legal structures in a Game of Thrones: The laws of the first men and those that followed
70:2 2018 - University of Illinois Law Review
Weber David P., Taxing zombies: Killing zombie mortgages with diffferential property taxes
2017:3 2017 - Probate and Property
Weber David P., Cities and states battle back: Taking the fight to the zombie (mortgages) and abandoned properties
29:1 2015 - Creighton Lawyer
Weber David P., Immigration reform: Stuck on repeat 2014 - New Mexico Law Review
Weber David P., Zombie mortgages, real estate, and the fallout for the survivors
45:1 2014 - Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Weber David P., Restricting the freedom of contract: A fundamental prohibition
16:1 2013 - ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Weber David P., Regulaciones estatales y locales de inmigración: La necesidad para un trinquete bilateral
18:3 2012 - ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Weber David P., State and local regulation of immigration: The need for a bilateral (reciprocal) ratchet
18:3 2012 - Nebraska Lawyer
Weber David P., Coercive use of immigration status in a civil society
14:10 2011 - Weber David P., Murky mess of MERS: The complications of collecting on promissory notes when MERS is around 2011
- Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Weber David P., Halting the deportation of businesses: A pragmatic paradigm for dealing with success
23:4 2009 - Mississippi Law Journal
Weber David P., Intangibles of payment system stripping: Why article 9 should not leave you baring your assets (applying a common law remedy to creature of statute)
79:2 2009 - Weber David P., Long awaited FTC rule: highlights of the revisions 2007
- North Dakota Law Review
Weber David P., United States v. Lara -- Federal powers couched in terms of sovereignty anda relaxation of prior restraints
83:2 2007
Presentations
- NIL in college athletics 2024
- Day of Remembrance honoring the work of the Japanase American Citizens League 2016
- Immigration law and trends in Nebraska 2016
- Immigration law and trends in Nebraska 2015
- Zombie mortgages 2015
- Testimony before the Omaha City Council on vacant property registration ordinance 2015
- Immigration law and trends in Nebraska 2014
- Guiding immigration policy in Nebraska 2013
- Restricting the freedom of contract 2013
- Immigration 101 training 2013
- Undocumented entrepreneurs 2012
- 2012 Supreme Court decisions on immigration 2012
- Immigration and race in state and local enforcement of immigration laws 2012
- Guiding immigration policy in Nebraska 2012
- Local and state efforts to regulate immigration 2011
- Corporate law lessons for immigration law 2011
- Immigrant influx, population growth and change in Nebraska 2011
- Guiding immigration policy in Nebraska 2011
- Payment stream stripping 2010
- "9500 Liberty" (panelist) 2010
- ABCs of asylum law 2010